Chinese title 天注定 (Tian zhu ding)
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Director Jia Zhangke
Year 2013
Length 135′
Screenplay Jia Zhangke
Cinematography Yu Lik-wa
Art Direction Weixin Liu
Music Giong Li
Editing Matthieu Laclau, Xudong Lin
Cast Jiang Wu, Zhao Tao, Wang Baoqiang
Production Company Xstream Pictures, Shanghai Film Group, Bandai Visual Company, Bitters End. MK2, Office Kitano (presents), Shanxi Film & Television Group
Language Chinese Mandarin
Subtitle Chinese & English
Genre Fiction
Synopsis
A “brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China” (Jon Frosch, The Atlantic), A TOUCH OF SIN was inspired by four shocking (and true) events that forced the world’s fastest growing economy into a period of self-examination.
Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), “one of the best and most important directors in the world” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand-scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.
An angry miner, enraged by widespread corruption in his village, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm. A young receptionist, who dates a married man and works at a local sauna, is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. And a young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading circumstances.
Bio-filmography of Director
Jia Zhangke was born in Fenyang, Shanxi Province of China. He studied painting, developed an interest in fiction and in 1995 founded the Youth Experiemental Film Group, for which he directed two awarded videos. He was graduated from Beijing Film Academy and made his first feature film “Xiao Wu” in 1998 which received a great success. The following “Zhan Tai” (“Platform”, 2000) and “Ren xiao yao” (“Unknown Pleasures”, 2002) has been selected in Competition respectively at Venice and Cannes. His film “Still Life” won the Golden Lion Award in the Venice Film Festival in 2006 and his latest film “A Touch of Sin”, selected in Competition at the Festival de Cannes 2013 won the Best Screenwriter Award. Jia Zhangke is now settled in Beijing and actively involved in filmmaking over China.
1994 One Day in Beijing 有一天，在北京
1995 Xiao Shan Going Home 小山回家
1996 Du Du 嘟嘟
1997 Xiao Wu 小武
2000 Platform 站台
2001 In Public 公共场所
2001 The Condition of Dogs 狗的状况
2002 Unknown Pleasures 任逍遙
2004 The World 世界
2006 Still Life 三峡好人
2006 Dong 东
2007 Useless 无用
2007 Our Ten Years 我们的十年
2008 24 City 二十四城
2008 Cry Me a River 河上的爱情
2008 Black Breakfast N/A Segment in the anthology film, Stories On Human Rights
2010 I Wish I Knew 海上传奇
2013 A Touch of Sin